Slica Review and #Giveaway

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Mea Culpa. A month or so ago I was sent a ‘MASHA’ to review. As the name might suggest it’s an electric potato masher. Which I rather fancied because, if you try to use a stick blender to mash your potatoes you will end up with something resembling wallpaper paste (the starches get released and make it go all gunky). The only snag is that during the summer I hardly ever make any kind of mashed vegetable. So it’s still sitting in its box waiting to be tested.

Meanwhile, the company got in contact to find out what I thought and I had to guiltily explain I hadn’t actually used it yet. And, instead of being grumpy (which they had a perfect right to be), they simply offered me a Slica – ‘much more appropriate for the Summer’. And then, they went on to suggest I reviewed it AND ran a giveaway too. Hurrah!

The Slica is a relatively small countertop electric machine that works very much in the same way that an old fashioned mincer used to work, although it ISN’T intended to mince meat. It’s incredibly easy to put together and the parts are dishwasher safe. And, it grates cheese and vegetables and slices wafer thin slivers of whatever you feed it.

I had a go with some cucumber

And then I decided to grate a block of cheese that really needed to be frozen rather than left to rot in the fridge. The cheese was just slightly soft, the sort that is really hard to grate by hand. The machine did a PERFECT job of working through the rather gunky cheese so that I could pop it in the freezer.

So I’m impressed. A few reservations – it would be oh so nice if it was up to processing cooked and raw meat. And the little nesting blades tend to get stuck together, which can be a bit fiddly.

But other than that, the Slica is one of those kitchen utensils I really do think I’ll use fairly regularly. It’s very compact and it does all the things my stick blender doesn’t do. So, it means I simply don’t need a food processor.

If you’d like to win a Slica, just follow the rafflecopter through and remember to comment below. I DO check that entries have been done properly, so please don’t take shortcuts or you could get disqualified. Meanwhile if you want one ANYWAY, you should be able to find them on sale at Argos for around £29.99

I’d love a Slica in my life,
a lot less hassle than using a knife!
compact and electric would make life a breeze
whether mincing meat or grating cheese.
I could make some faggots & burgers too
wished i had one to use and review 🙂 x

I WOULD LIKE A SLICA, PLEASE
TO SLICE MY CARROTS AND SOME CHEESE
ONIONS, CUCUMBER AND BREADCRUMBS TOO
LESS WORK FOR ME, MUCH EASIER TO CHEW
SAVING TIME IN THE KITCHEN, GREAT
DINNER IN OUR HOUSE WOULD NEVER BE LATE!

I need a Slica in my life as chopping and slicing becomes the bain of my life and the idea always leads to me picking up the takeaway menu! A Slica would take away the pain of having to chop and hopefully help to reduce my waistline at the same time! x

why do i need it? because we would use it almost every day. Our son has this thing about eating cucumber and being a mum I keep stocked up on anything healthy he likes, my man is a bit fussy and likes things done nice for his tea (he does work 6 days a week and long hours at that and even goes in on Sundays when they are busy) so dont blame him wanting a good tea. Im the coleslaw fan but i hate the supmarket stuff that looks old. The only disadvantage i can see of it is there would be less waste (we have a pair of big rabbits in a big hutch n run, and a little old guinea pig in a small hutch who nibble all our waste veggies apart from potatoes). it looks pretty funky too!

Every day we have a super tasty salad which is basically a big bowl of grated carrot with lemon juice, garlic, chilli, ginger, cardemom seeds, onion. Its my own creation and part of our healthy eating long term stay in shape plan! Anyway one batch lasts 4 days so its a constant job grating carrots and its so hard to do especially towards the ends when I am at risk of grating my fingers and nails!

On a purely superficial basis it would look great in my kitchen! Having to admit one is getting older can be a problem but a ‘Slica’ would certainly disguise my aches and pains in my arms due to arthritis. Better than cosmetic surgery to appear to look younger I would say – would certainly use a Slica once a day.

This looks brilliant! So useful, especially for all of the veg my husband brings home from his allotment! I can’t begin to tell you the amount of time I have spent chopping and grating lately! Fingers crossed.

I am on slimming world diet and am slicing and grating a lot of foods at the moment for salads etc. as a previous non fruit or veg eater I hate handling them to grate so this would make my life so much easier.

I genuinely think that if I had one of these handy devices, I would eat more healthily. I love salad, fruit and veg. I don’t eat enough of them purely because they’re such a pain to prepare. Thanks and fingers crossed 🙂

For my wedding shower, I was given a Salad Shooter, which was a very similar device. I used it consistently for 22 years (!) but it broke this past spring, and I was devastated. Please, please- I need this again!!

My mother-in-law has really bad arthritis and find it hard to chop and grate things. Although she lives 40 miles away we try to see her as often as we can (especially as she loves to cook and makes the most yummiest things!!)

I would love to use it to make ratatouile, and neatly sliced salads, fine carrots, thin slices of courgette to accompany a main dish of fish or meat. its just so practical for everything. and i do love cheese, so i could use it for that too!

If I won I would give this to my mum because she has terrible athritis and can’t chop things up easily and forget grating as it hurts her hands too much to grip cheese so she has to buy more expensive ready grated so this would be a revelation for her.

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